WOODBURY — Poets, painters, musicians, singers, dancers, welders, jewelers, printers, brewers, chefs and all others whose work could be described as an art form descended upon downtown Woodbury Saturday for the inaugural Fall Arts Festival.

The event, which Main Street organizers plan to stretch into a weekend-long affair next year, attracted between 12,000 and 15,000 residents from across South Jersey.

“This is all part of a greater initiative to bring people to downtown,” said Tara Rea, show director for Saturday’s arts festival and chairwoman of promotions with Main Street Woodbury. “We’d like to see the city become a hub for the arts.

“South Jersey has an enormous amount of artists, but it’s not very organized — we’re trying to bring it all together.”

One of the many arts groups that performed demonstrations at the festival was the Sage Coalition, a collective of painters, spray paint artists, welders and others from Trenton.

Their display attracted onlookers with a towering pyramid-shaped bamboo frame, from which swung a pendulum that dripped paint across multiple canvasses on the ground.

“Different cities are known for their different artform,” said Jon Gordon, before assessing the blue, yellow and green swirls. “Trenton is an industrial city, so why not have an industrial contraption for the purpose of making art.”

Marj Yeager, a resident of Woodbury, who came along with her friends form West Deptford and Paulsboro, was impressed by the scale of the festival.

“It’s exciting to have something this nice right here,” she said. “It’s great to see all these different things, and not the same country stuff.”

Her friend from West Deptford, Jim Johnson, agreed.

“All of the unusual things they have here, it’s very nice,” he said. “It’s nice to be able to ‘go into town’ without having to go to Haddon or Collingswood.”